American YouTuber Coyote Peterson claimed he found a huge primate skull in British Columbia and hid it for several weeks from people who might stop their footage including government officials. He did not identify the secured location but confirmed the skull had been in his possession. Peterson is known for hosting the video channel "Brave Wilderness."
The popular host of an Animal Planet series said the skull he found in the Pacific Northwest was safe. He said that he could not believe that he discovered a primate skull in Canadian woodland. To date, there were no large primates discovered or currently living in North America.
A science consultant and National Geographic Explorer with expertise in the wildlife trade, Jonathan Kolby, wrote that it is illegal to smuggle any primate specimens into the United States, even if the specimen is found in the wild.
A graduate student in the Geospatial Intelligence program at Johns Hopkins University, geologist, and author of "The 50 State Fossils: A Guidebook for Aspiring Paleontologists, Yinan Wang, said that the skull found resembles a gorilla skull cast, which is available on AliExpress. Wang tweeted a side-by-side photo of the cast and the primate skull.
Naish told Live Science in an email that the gorilla skull was a replica of casts of an unknown specie of gorilla available in stores. He said that the skull was from various anatomical characteristics, and the suggestion that it might be a real skull of a primate could be instantly closed down.
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